Human Populations

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Goals: Human Population
  • Assess the scope of human population growth and potential limits to its growth
  • Evaluate how human population. affluence, and technology affect the environment
  • Explain and apply thefundamentals of demography
  • Outline and assess the concept of demographic transition
  • Describe how wealth and poverty, the status of women, and family planning programs affect population growth
  • Characterize the dimensions of the HIV/AIDS epidemic
  • Analyze relationships among changes in population size, economic development, and resource consumption at global and local levels
  • Define fecundity, fertility, replacement level fertility, natality, mortality, and morbidity
  • Define immigration and emigration
  • Describe the scale of urbanization
  • Assess urban and suburban sprawl
Skills:
  • Determine population density
  • Determine a population death rate
  • Determine a population's birth rate
  • Determine a population's growth rate using the formula
  • Determine populations change over time
  • Analyze population pyramids
  • Determine doubling time of a population
On-line Resources:
Human Population 2011 STANYS.ppt

Are you typical? National Geographic
National Repository for Online Courses (NROC)
One Billion and Counting - Student Assignment
One Billion and Counting - Student Companion Site
Overpopulation is a Myth